I so want these!!! Is there any pics of the inside pages around? I'm really curious to see how they styled Young Indy in manga form! It would be great if there was an English translation version of these. I doubt there is though, considering the popularity of the series itself, but it would still be nice.

The artwork is certainly original and darned gorgeous, too. Worth having for just the covers alone. Nice discovery, Moedred!

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Originally Posted by Violet

I so want these!!! Is there any pics of the inside pages around? I'm really curious to see how they styled Young Indy in manga form!

These books are probably just text, Violet. If there are any illustrations inside, it's a good bet there are done traditionally and not in cartoon fashion. To see Young Indy in manga () style, follow the links in this thread: Indiana Jones Manga

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Originally Posted by Junior Jones

Most of the likenesses are very good, but there's definitely something wrong with Indy's eyes on this one:

He looks like a cross between a young Mickey Rooney and a young Jerry Lewis!

Stoo, can you make a quick list of what episodes were adapted by Random House and Bungeishunju? It may take a lot of digging to determine whether the authors worked off the English adaptions to any degree. I only feature non-English covers on the site if they have original artwork, so these definitely have a place, though I just don't know if this is a publisher like Hachette Livre which kept on going. This doesn't even get into unpublished material.

With the exceptions of 10 and 11, I think I can tell which episodes these adapt. Does anyone know which episodes those remaining two are adaptations of?

#10 must be the Somme episode because of the poetry connection with Siegfried Sassoon (Poetry of gun smoke / Poem of smoke)

#11 must be the Germany episode because of the Harry Frig/escape connection. (Funny that Google translated this one as, "Secret War of Harry Frigg", since that is a late '60s movie with Paul Newman playing an prison escape artist during WW2!)

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Originally Posted by Moedred

Stoo, can you make a quick list of what episodes were adapted by Random House and Bungeishunju? It may take a lot of digging to determine whether the authors worked off the English adaptions to any degree. I only feature non-English covers on the site if they have original artwork, so these definitely have a place, though I just don't know if this is a publisher like Hachette Livre which kept on going. This doesn't even get into unpublished material.

There are 6 episodes which are unique to the Bungeishunju series:
- Curse of the Jackal - Part 2 (Mexico)
- London
- Vienna
- Peking
- Somme
- Barcelona

The remainder had been adapted by Random House with the exception of "Congo" (done by Fantail) and "Paris 1916" (done by Ballantine). Note: Random House adapted "Princeton 1916" but Bungeishunju did not.

That said, Junior Jones wrote that all the Japanese novels are fresh adaptations. How he knows this for sure, is a mystery!

These books are probably just text, Violet. If there are any illustrations inside, it's a good bet there are done traditionally and not in cartoon fashion. To see Young Indy in manga () style, follow the links in this thread: Indiana Jones Manga

They're not manga no. I only got the first one as a curiosity since I won't be learning Japanese any time soon but it has:
A map of Indy's travels
A map of the episode location
Picture of George Lucas with signature
The story illustrated with photos from the episode
Timeline
Episode credits
Biographies of the cast
Behind the scenes info/photos

Golden
01. Curse of the Jackal - Part 1 (Egypt)
02. British East Africa

Don't forget the German Books. For some reasons we had some Translations of YIJ novels that never made it in the States:
This series contains books from different original series by Random House (the Stine's book), Fantail (Nigel Robinson books) and Ballantine (James Luceno book) books as well as (according to the book details) original stories by Mike F. Thompson that have been first printed in this German series.

An Indy Wiki table of all the adaptations would really help here. Sometimes a publication covers 2 broadcast hours, sometimes 2 publications cover 1. Only then will I be able to sort the original foreign adaptations from the translations of other adaptations...

Wow- these Japanese books have some awesome cover art! I appreciate finding threads like this with a lot of good information about foreign translations and adaptations of Indiana Jones books. Has the Indiana Jones wiki been updated with this information?
Thanks to all who have added to the posts here.